Art Quote by Annie Dillard

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...

— Eric Maisel

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

— Robert Black

Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been…

— Kenneth Clark

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

— Henry Mille

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The basis of art is change in the universe.

— Anonymous

“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man's…

— Jean Renoir

“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and…

— Salvador de Madariaga

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

— John Updike

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its…

— Robin G. Collingwood

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re…

— Mary Button Durell

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell